Effect on
South American CL: This
proposal adds a species to the Main List.

An individual
Black Kite (Milvus migrans) remained
for 32 days on the Brazilian Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago (SPSPA) in
April/May 2014, disappearing only at the end of the rainy season. It looked healthy for most of this period and
was once seen preying on a seabird chick (Nunes et al. 2015).

Its presence
in South America and also throughout America as a whole is unprecedented. It is
listed by “Check-list of North
American Birds” only because of Hawaiian accidental records (A.O.U. 2000).

Nunes et al. (2015) provided photographs,
discussed the correctness in identification, and presented hypotheses for the
appearance in this archipelago (and also in Fernando de Noronha) of some birds from
the Old World.

Literature Cited:

American Ornithologists' Union.
2000. Forty-second supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list
of North American Birds. Auk 117:847–858.

Comments
from Stiles: “YES.
Although not an easy identification, the morphological details given clearly
point to migrans.”

Comments
from Jaramillo: “YES. Identification
is concrete given the great photographs available in the paper. One can be
certain that it is not M. aegyptius,
Yellow-billed Kite, which is sometimes lumped with Black Kite. Note that this record
is not unprecedented. There is at least one record in the Caribbean that is
confirmed from what I recall, and there is a good and photographed record from
Dominica, which unfortunately cannot be confirmed due to the loss of the
slides. So there are good reports/records from the Caribbean area.”

Comments from Robbins: “YES, for adding Milvus migrans to the SACC list, as the
identification seems sound.Also, I was
unaware of the additional records that Alvaro mentioned.”